Shock for Israeli Intelligence: 100,000 Classified Emails of Mossad’s Ex-Deputy Director S...
Attack Intelligence
Shock for Israeli Intelligence: 100,000 Classified Emails of Mossad’s Ex-Deputy Director S... was compromised in a ransomware attack attributed to handala in March 2026. The organization, operating in the Government sector in IL, was added to the group's data leak site as part of an extortion campaign.
handala operates as a financially motivated ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation, exfiltrating sensitive data and threatening public disclosure to pressure victims into paying ransom demands.
In an incident that sent shockwaves through the Israeli intelligence apparatus, the personal email of Sima Shine, the former Deputy Director for Research of Mossad, former Head of the Iran Desk, and current leader of one of Israel’s most secretive intelligence institutions, has been hacked. Now, over 100,000 of her ultra-classified emails are available for…